Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 298)
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Are there nations without airlines? What happened to Nigeria Airways? How safe is Syrianair? The pilot knows all.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "The Crisis of the Pro-War Liberals," by Michelle Goldberg, and "Iraq Is Not Vietnam," by Edward W. Lempinen.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
New York Post's Ralph Peters tags Wesley Clark a softy on terror, while Coulter sees a devious Hillary plot.
Iraq is not Vietnam
Edward W. Lempinen
The antiwar left shows a troubling indifference to the plight of Iraqis -- and flirts with irrelevance -- by demanding that President Bush bring the troops home now.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
O'Reilly helps Bush explain the Arab street, and the Spectator's Mark Steyn insists bin Laden is dead. Plus: Buchanan says Gray Davis' recall strategy will cause traffic fatalities to skyrocket.
From G.I. Joe to Tora Bora Ted
Petra Bartosiewicz
Since 9/11, a new generation of war toys has emerged -- action figures and accessories pegged to U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Are they harmless patriotic playthings, or a shameless attempt to market combat to kids?
PATRIOT missile
Michelle Goldberg
Attorney General John Ashcroft takes his weird "we must save the USA PATRIOT Act" roadshow to New York. He's finding it a much tougher sell now than it was six weeks after 9/11.
Bush’s big lies, continued
Robert Scheer
In claiming that Iraq is now the central front in the war on terror, Bush is heralding a self-fulfilling prophecy: He claimed Iraq was a hotbed of terrorism, and he turned it into one.
The world press on the legacy of 9/11
Compiled by Laura McClure
The Guardian: Did U.S. authorities purposely fail to avert the attacks in 2001?
Canada’s safe haven for junkies
Mark Follman
Vancouver hopes to save hundreds of lives by opening street clinics where heroin addicts can shoot up safely. But the White House is accusing Canada of going AWOL from its war on drugs.
A “mind-numbingly boring” propaganda film
Kristen Breitweiser
A 9/11 widow reviews last night's Showtime film about President Bush's actions on and after that fateful morning.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Why is the CNN News I watch overseas so much better than the watery slobber they show in America?
All together now
Julia Goldberg
The Democratic presidential candidates take turns bashing Bush -- and pay little attention to each other.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "Lenny Bruce Died for Our Sins," by Gary Kamiya, and "We're Losing the War in Afghanistan, Too," by John Sifton.
The fall of John Walker Lindh
Mark Kukis
He met bin Laden and carried arms for the Taliban. And when he was finally captured, he faced the fury of Americans -- U.S. soldiers in particular. Part 2 of an exclusive excerpt.
The world press on Afghanistan and Iraq
Compiled by Laura McClure
A Taliban fighter boasts about how his comrades beat the Afghan TV minister "like a dog."
John Walker Lindh’s long, dark journey
Mark Kukis
How an earnest American student of Islam became a fighter for the Taliban: An exclusive excerpt from the first biography of Lindh.
Who’s tougher on terror?
Joe Conason
Conservatives blame 9/11 on Clinton. But it was Bush Republicans who made deals with terrorists -- while Clinton's team took concrete steps to protect Americans. Part 5 of "Big Lies."
We’re losing the war in Afghanistan, too
John Sifton
A human rights worker reports from the
other front in the U.S. war on terror,
where warlords reign supreme, music is once
again banned, journalists hide from
gunmen, and even the streets of Kabul are
filled with fear.
Terrorist threat or political hype?
Paul J. Caffera
Top Bush administration officials called the bust of arms dealer Hemant Lakhani last week a major blow against terrorism. Security experts are skeptical.
A huge and terrible mess
Salon Staff
In a speech to MoveOn.org, former Vice President Al Gore admonishes Bush and says "something basic has gone wrong in our country."
The war according to David Hackworth
Jonathan Franklin
The retired colonel calls Donald Rumsfeld an "asshole" whose bad planning mired U.S. troops in an ugly guerrilla conflict in Iraq. His sources? Defiant soldiers sending dispatches from the front.
Terror in the Saudi kingdom
Mark Follman
CIA veteran Bob Baer talks about the censored 9/11 report, why al-Qaida is still cozy in the house of Saud -- and why Osama is winning.
Are we safer now?
Eric Boehlert
The war on Saddam has made the U.S. less secure, say foreign-policy experts.
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